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Nil Venditti conducts Clyne, Puccini, Respighi and Say

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Nil Venditti

,Barbican Hall
Jess Gillam holding a saxophone against a blue backdrop

Nil Venditti, Jess Gillam and the BBC Symphony Orchestra travel from the West of Ireland to the shores of the Bosphorus, in music by Ottorino Respighi, Giacomo Puccini, Fazil Say and Anna Clyne.

The Grand Bazaar of Istanbul: a trading place of civilisations, in which the tales told are as countless as the treasures for sale. The eternal city of Rome, where la dolce vita thrives amid the memory of far older – and more savage – celebrations. An Irish legend of banshees and night terrors, retold by two of 21st century Britain’s liveliest musical voices and highlighting the wonderfully communicative gifts of saxophone virtuoso Jess Gillam. 

Well, they say a musical picture is worth a thousand words, and for Turkish composer Fazil Say, his vibrant home city represents a place “without any borders, not even in the mind.” Closing the concert is Respighi’s Feste romane: a blockbuster Roman tone-poem that certainly doesn’t hold back.

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Programme

  • Fazil Say   Grand Bazaar
  • Anna Clyne   Glasslands
  • Giacomo Puccini   Preludio Sinfonico
  • Ottorino Respighi   Feste romane

Performers

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra  
  • Nil Venditti   conductor
  • Jess Gillam   saxophone

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